Impact Score: 5/10
Hugging Face Transformers: Patch release v4.56.1
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v4.56.1. Source highlight: Patch release v4.56.1
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๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Fix broken Llama4 accuracy in MoE part (#40609)
- fix pipeline dtype (#40638)
- Fix self.dropout_p is not defined for SamAttention/Sam2Attention (#40667)
- Fix backward compatibility with accelerate in Trainer (#40668)
- fix broken offline mode when loading tokenizer from hub (#40669)
- [Glm4.5V] fix vLLM support (#40696)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
# Patch release v4.56.1
This patch most notably fixes an issue with the new `dtype` argument (replacing `torch_dtype`) in pipelines!
## Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fix broken Llama4 accuracy in MoE part (#40609)
- fix pipeline dtype (#40638)
- Fix self.dropout_p is not defined for SamAttention/Sam2Attention (#40667)
- Fix backward compatibility with accelerate in Trainer (#40668)
- fix broken offline mode when loading tokenizer from hub (#40669)
- [Glm4.5V] fix vLLM support (#40696)